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slightly defined by fuscous on outer side, angled outwards below costa then 

 curved ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia whitish with black line near base and 

 black tips. Hindwing fulvous yellow suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; 

 traces of a yellowish antemedial line and of a sinuous postmedial line ; a fine 

 black terminal line ; cilia whitish with black line near base and fuscous line near 

 tips. Underside of forewing with minutely waved subterminal line curved from 

 costa to vein 3, then strongly incurved ; hindwing with whitish discoidal lunule 

 and sinuous whitish postmedial line. 



Habitat. — Assam, Khasis ; Borneo, Sarawak. Exp. 20 mill. 



4658a. Ambia cyanealis insert Ambia cvekuleata, Hmpsn., 111. Het. B. M., 

 ix, p. 179, pi. 174, p. 29 (1893), which has priority. 



4670. a. Oligostigma melanotalis, A. M. N. H. (7), xviii, p. 463 (1906). 



Head, thorax and abdomen whitish mixed with orange ; fore femora and 

 tibiae tinged with fuscous. Forewing whitish suffused with orange especially on 

 costal and terminal areas ; a black spot on middle cf costa with traces of an 

 oblique orange line from it towards inner margin : a rounded orange discoidal 

 spot ; a sinuous whitish postmedial line slightly defined by orange on inner side, 

 followed by an orange band with fine black line on its outer edge, then an 

 orange terminal band ; a terminal series of slight black points ; cilia whitish 

 tinged with yellow. Hindwing with the basal area whitish ; a blackish medial 

 line not reaching costa or inner margin ; the terminal half orange ; a subtermi- 

 nal whitish band between veins 5 and 1 defined on inner side by a sinuous fus- 

 cous line and on outer by a blackish line ; a fine fuscous terminal line with three 

 small black spots at middle ; cilia white with a fine fuscous line through 

 them. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Maskeliya, Pundaloya. Exp. 18-20 mill. 



4673a. Oligostigma alicialis, Hmpsn., A. M. N. H. (7), xviii, p. 463 

 (1906). (Plate E., f. 15.) 



9- Head and thorax pale brown ; abdomen brown mixed with black and 

 banded with white, the veutral surface white. Forewing pale brown suffused 

 in parts with blackish ; an oblique orange wedge-shaped patch beyond the celt 

 from vein 7 to 2 defined on each side by fuscous lines ; a curved white sub- 

 terminal band bent inwards above inner margin, defined on inner side by black- 

 ish suffusion from ccsta to apex of the wedge-shaped patch and on outer by a 

 black line followed by an orange terminal band : a fine black terminal line ; 

 cilia whitish with a fuscous line through them. Hindwing with the base black 

 followed by a broad white band, then a broad black band, then a white band 

 expanding somewhat at middle and defined on outer side by a fuscous line : a 

 terminal orange band and fine black terminal line ; cilia grey with black spots 

 divided by fine white streaks at the medial lobe. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Udagama. Exp. 14 mill. 



4681a. Oligostigma acropunctalis, Hmpsn., A. M. N. H. (7), xviii, p. 466 

 ^1906). 



White ; abdomen tinged with ochreous towards extremity. Forewirg slightly 



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